Dundee United’s Paul Dixon insists now is the time for everyone involved with the club to start pulling together, not apart.
Saturday’s defeat to Ross County was overshadowed by what had preceded it off the field thanks to a war of words between the club and fans’ groups.
Dixon admitted that the conflict was not helping the players who have now failed to win in their last nine games and he issued a call for unity, not further damaging division.
He said: “I think as a whole club, players, staff, we all need to sit down and have a chat to figure out where we are going wrong.
“That’s the last nine games without a win. There has been a couple of draws in there but the majority have been defeats.
“So we need to sit down as a team, as a group, as a club and just work out what’s going wrong and try to rectify it.
“As a club, including the fans, we need to pull together.
“We have nine games left to push for a European place.
“I think as a whole club we need to move on and pull together for the last nine games of the season.”
He added: “It is not easy sitting in the morning before training or maybe after at lunch reading in the papers that the fans are battering your chairman.
“It shouldn’t affect us, to be honest as that’s boardroom level.
“But boys reading that . . . it’s not great to see your fans revolting almost against your chairman.
“We need our fans to support us and help us through this tough period that we are in.
“Hopefully, they do get behind us.”